The first artwork was an incredible surprise, the body of a woman glimpsed in the waves.
It was an ordinary day in August at the Incanto Apartment in Golfo Aranci, and like every morning the alarm clock set at 6:30 invited me to take my SUP to enjoy alone the crystalline mirror of the sea in front of the house.
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It is the most beautiful moment of the day, in the morning, no one on the beach, no one in the sea, just a few seagulls waiting for the sun to rise behind Mount Ruju and the tinkling of the halyards of sailing boats.
Just me and my SUP; I begin to paddle from the small beach under the Incanto Apartment towards the port of Golfo Aranci, I pass between the boats, through a line of buoys.
At first I don't quite understand what it is, then suddenly a woman's face. It takes me a few seconds to understand that it was a sculpture.
I had read that a museum under the sea had been created in Golfo Aranci in 2013, but since the "Mizar", the yellow submarine that was used to explore the museum, was abandoned in the port, I was giving it up for closed.
But no! The works are still all there, without any signal buoy, some destroyed by the anchors of the boats that moor regardless of the reserved area, fighting with the marine flora that tries to make them its own.
It took me a week of SUP to find them all and geolocate them on a Google map that you will find at the bottom of the article .
It was like discovering a treasure that had its maximum expression when she finally appeared beneath me on the seabed, Emanuel Chapalain's huge fishbone.
It was July 26, 2013 when the museum was welcomed with a great ceremony and a great success with the public in the presence of the then mayor of Golfo Aranci, Giuseppe Fasolino, of the architect who built it, Lucio Micheletti, of the Honorable Vittorio Sgarbi, by the President of the Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci, by the President of the Museum of the Park of Portofino, Daniele Crippa, and by the art critic, Serena Mormino.
The MuMArt is a submerged museum of 14 contemporary sculptures located in the waters of Golfo Aranci between the Third Beach and the Fourth Beach.
The acronym Mumart stands for "Maritime Museum of Art" and is sponsored by the Museum of the park, the international center of open-air sculpture in Portofino.
The 14 sculptures have been selected by artists of international interest and arranged on the seabed, illuminated by natural light and surrounded by flora and fauna that combine with the works themselves to make the visitor live a unique and unforgettable experience.
The works, anchored to the bottom between 4 and 7 meters deep, positioned following the shape of a shell, depict subjects linked to the marine world.
Luigi Romano, Councilor for Tourism of Golfo Aranci, will tell me later that they are working to relaunch the project.
Two more are still missing: Steel by Nino Mustico and Ricordi by Renata Boeri.
What are you waiting for? Equip yourself with a SUP or skate, a mobile phone to follow my coordinates on Google Maps and go and discover the submerged works.